“Be Like Water.” You may have seen these words attributed to Bruce Lee on a t-shirt or bumper sticker. Here is the full quote: "Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."

I keep going back to these words by Bruce Lee lately. They've become my lifeline during these hurricanes I've been weathering. I keep turning this paradox over in my mind: how can something so yielding be so powerful? And why did it take me so long to understand this?

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